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...Labour government does our military and political bidding. Whether from moral outrage or sour grapes, British playwrights have made attacking the Bush-U.S. worldview, and the Blair-U.K. subsidiary role in it, a top priority. ?Guantanamo,? the documentary play about British citizens detained at the U.S. base in Cuba for years without being charged, has transferred from a successful run in London to New York?s off-Broadway. In a kind of Equity trade, the West End gets Tim Robbins? play ?Embedded,? after lengthy stints in Los Angeles and New York...
South Korea's troops are landing in Iraq, but very, very discreetly. Last week in the northern city of Arbil, a convoy of flatbed trucks carrying construction machinery and ambulances rumbled through town to a base being constructed on the city outskirts, trailed by a camouflaged armored vehicle with an Arabic sign reading "We Are Friends." Back home, friends and relatives could barely get any news of the troops, although South Korea will soon have the third largest number of foreign soldiers on Iraqi soil?3,600?after the U.S. and Britain. Citing security concerns, Seoul in July requested Korean...
...funded by wealthy Wahhabi donors in gulf states. The insurgents say they are fighting for an Islamic state in Iraq. A veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, Abu Musa'ab exploits the military's reluctance to inflict damage on residential areas. His men barrage Task Force 1/9's base with rockets and mortars every two or three days, knowing that the Americans will rarely fire back. "I can fire from anywhere I like. Go on, pick a spot. I'll show you," Abu Musa'ab told TIME. "They can't chase us in here...
...spend $8.7 billion on 2,096 Strykers because of their ability to be loaded into the ubiquitous C-130 cargo planes, flown to war zones, then immediately rolled down the planes' back ramp and into combat. To convince doubters, the Army even staged a demonstration at Andrews Air Force Base, in which a Stryker and its 11-troop crew emerged from the belly of a C-130 like toothpaste coming out of a tube...
Urban labels like Rocawear, Sean John and Phat Farm, which made their names with warm-up suits and athletic jerseys, are introducing more dressed-up looks in an attempt to expand their customer base and achieve mega-brand status along the lines of Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger. Jay-Z, who founded Rocawear with Damon Dash, even sang about the sartorial shift: "I don't wear jerseys, I'm 30-plus./Give me a crisp pair of jeans ... Button up." (Concertgoers quickly followed his lead, he says.) Dash, Rocawear's CEO, isn't a fan of the new trend. "This...